Super Righteous Player-Chapter 169 - 167 Why Did You Provoke Him_1

[You are plunging into a nightmare, instance generating...]

[Instance difficulty is Easy, with a maximum of eight entries]

[Current purification rate is 2/10]

[Team’s total erosion rate is 36%, instance difficulty increased by 36%, probability of nightmare distortions increased by 36%]

[This instance has no save points, death increases erosion rate by 1%, and forces exit from the instance after one death]

[This instance provides an introductory narrative, with no decryption rewards]

[Instance clearance reward: Profession (Wizard) level increases by 1]

[Loading complete]

Annan’s consciousness gradually awoke, his physical strength swiftly recovering.

Just as he was about to open his eyes, Annan heard Justin’s whisper:

"Enough, I don’t want to remember anymore... My failures... "

And then, Annan suddenly woke up with a start.

It was like awakening from a shallow dream.

Annan realized that at this moment, he was sleeping next to a side door in the carriage compartment.

He yanked a small handful of "his" hair forcefully.

"Golden hair..."

Annan murmured, beginning to inspect the treasures on him.

He was quickly dazzled by the intense curse aura emanating from these items:

[Mouth of Blazing Flames]

[Type: Weapon/Spell Orb (Deep Blue)]

[Description: A spell orb containing explosive power, which can seek enemies and attack on activation. Capable of switching attack modes.]

[Effect: Once per day, can place to unfold a fixed Magic Eye. Magic Eye has a maximum charge of sixty, recovering one point per second. Uses six points to activate "Scorching Gaze," eighteen points to activate "Fiery Spell Orb," sixty points to activate "Blaze of Fury."]

[Price: Retrieving the Magic Eye increases the holder’s erosion rate by 3%]

[High-heat Fire Seed]

[Description: An armband containing searing power, which scorches when grasped.]

[Type: Ornament/Armband (Purple)]

[Effect: Permanently enhances all searing and fire element damage caused by you by 30%; activate to consume the armband and cause an exceptionally intense explosion]

[Price: All searing element and fire element spells consume an additional 50% of mana]

[Venom - Intensifying Pain] *3

[Type: Weapon/Thrown Object/Dagger (Light Blue)]

[Description: A fragile, emerald green blade.]

[Effect: Breaks immediately upon a successful attack and inflicts "Intensifying Pain" on the contacted every three seconds, equal to the spell of the same name]

[Price: It inevitably fails in parry, deflection, and blocking determinations]

"... This wizard is a bit rich,"

Annan remarked with some surprise after checking the three cursed items of blue quality and above.

Beyond these, his robe, gloves, boots, vest were all cursed items with very minor effects and prices. Still, these items were clearly standard gear—consistently providing "extra mana"—so he set them aside for the time being.

Even his storage item—a bronze ring set with a ruby—had attributes!

The gem set in it seemed to be some high-level cursed item. Every day at sundown, it would cast "Light Wound Healing" on its wearer, with an effect equivalent to the idol spell of the same name.

Apart from that, Annan also found three potions in his inner pocket—one of which looked like solidified black fire, while the other two were completely unrecognizable to him.

For objects not containing curses, there were no attribute prompts here for Annan.

So even Annan himself didn’t know what the Wizard’s other two potions were for.

Moreover, aside from these cursed items and potions...

Annan also found a purse on him.

It contained a stack of paper money—Annan roughly felt it and could confirm that there were probably more than forty pounds. In another pocket inside the carriage, there was some "change," thirteen silver coins.

...This guy, could he be the son of some bigwig?

"Why did you provoke him?"

Annan had mixed feelings towards Justin.

Maybe the Transcendents Justin hunted before were all wild ones without affiliation, or impoverished Transcendents...

But this big brother was obviously not an ordinary person.

Sizing up this guy’s collection of gear... and that terrifyingly effective armband.

Annan couldn’t help but feel fortunate that Justin’s hunt years ago wasn’t successful...

...However, speaking of which.

Why did he directly descend on the side opposed to the nightmare’s master this time?

Annan was deep in thought.

As he opened the carriage door, he saw four burly men lying helter-skelter outside the tilted carriage.

Up to now, only two of the four players had just woken up.

—It was Delicious Goose and Yi Yi.

They struggled to stand up. Annan got off the carriage and lifted each of them up from the ground one by one.

As the four players gradually regained consciousness, the introductory story of this instance slowly appeared before them:

[Arthur Burnfang was a new prey that Karni Kasting had taken an interest in.]

[There are no Wizards more easily angered than those who have been interrupted... With the unceasing vicious curse coursing through their veins, they can neither calm down nor see through the schemes of others. Among all Wizards, Destroyers are the easiest to be hunted.]

[Karni originally wanted to use the "Hunting Notification Ritual" to force the young Wizard out of town alone, then cut him down outside the city. But he seemed to have overplayed his hand: Arthur chose to stay—but he hired only four guards. This ostentatious action made Karni feel fear... because Karni realized that Arthur might actually be planning to hunt him instead.]

[In the end, due to critical moments of cowardice and hesitation, Karni’s hunting operation failed.]

[It was this failed hunt that broke the final link in Karni’s ’Slaughterer’ advancement ritual: successfully kill a Wizard, a Swordsman, a Priest, a Hunter, a Rogue, a male elder over eighty years of age, and a girl child under eight years of age, all within one month.]

[But Karni no longer had another chance—he had been placed on the wanted list by both the Heath Tower of Black and the Silver Baron Church.]

[This failed hunt completely changed Karni’s trajectory of fate.]

[If he had successfully advanced to silver, there should have been people willing to recruit him.]

[But in the end, he gave up on the idea of advancing to silver and chose to disappear under a false name, far away.] frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

[The Transcendent ’Slaughterer’ Karni Kasting died. But Justin, the Cursed Hunter who was killed by Karni’s own hands, "lived" once again—]

["The only failed hunt in my life... but even if I had another chance, do I really have any opportunity..."]

As these traces gradually faded, new text emerged before Annan’s eyes:

[Main quest: End this hunt]

Subsequently, two mission requirements appeared beneath it:

[End this hunt as quickly as possible]

[Arthur Burnfang must survive]